Remember how he attacked gun-free school zones, lax mental health facilities and even violent video games - but not military-style assault weapons, high-capacity magazines or his own organization's resistance to such sensible ideas as background checks for gun purchasers at gun shows?

Remember how he doubled down after astonished critics ridiculed his call for even more guns in schools, handled by "armed officers"? "If it's crazy to call for armed officers in our schools to protect our children," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" two days before Christmas, "then call me crazy."

Guess what? Among President Obama's legislative gun-control proposals and 23 executive actions, he agreed in some form with all of those ideas from LaPierre. But don't hold your breath waiting for cooperation from the NRA.

Obama called for federal aid to states for the hiring of up to 1,000 "school resource officers," specially trained police officers who work in schools where school districts want them. He called for mental health professionals to "help prevent school crime and student-on-student violence." That proposal would include initiatives to help school staff catch symptoms of mental illness early and refer students for treatment. The president even agreed that the influence of video games was worth investigating. He called for $10 million from Congress for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study whether there is a correlation between gun violence and "violent video games" and other media.

To its credit, the Entertainment Software Association sounded eager to cooperate. Although researchers so far have failed to find a definitive link between violent video games and violent behavior, the ESA, which represents the interactive entertainment industry, said in a statement that it would cooperate and "collaborate" with the government to "examine the facts that will bring about meaningful solutions."

Good for them. It is an under-reported scandal that since 1996 Congress has handcuffed the federal government's ability to conduct any research into firearm safety. Under NRA pressure, lawmakers cut federal funds from the CDC for any research that might "be used to advocate or promote gun control." The NRA was particularly alarmed by a study that showed a gun kept in the home to be 43 times more likely to be involved in the death of a member of the household than to be used in self-defense. The NRA solution: Ban the research.

That helps to explain NRA President David Keene's hard-line position on gun control, even on suggestions that LaPierre proposed. Keene told ABC News that mental health services and school resource officers are "a drop in the ocean in terms of the problem." He added that Obama's proposal is "... simply a fig leaf so he can pursue an anti-gun agenda. It has less to do with security and more to do with gun."

To help ensure that Congress will block the president's proposals, the NRA didn't even wait to hear him outline his ideas before launching an outrageous attack video on its website.

"Are the president's kids more important than yours?" the NRA's 35-second video asks. "Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school? Obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, but he's just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to a fair share of security."

Obama's announcement of his gun-safety program nullified the video's argument, which was ridiculous anyway. The children of presidents are protected by the Secret Service not because they are "more important" than other kids but because they are more at risk.

Besides, if anybody sounds "elitist," which my dictionary defines as the "sense of entitlement enjoyed by such a group or class," it's the NRA.